Maine Punk History

@mainepunk.bsky.social

Preserving and organizing the history of Punk and HC in Maine. Show fliers, photos, OOP audio, etc from old Maine Punk/HC shows. DM me submissions! Maine.punk on IG/FB.

2000 flier from a show at the Presumpscott Grange in Portland, Maine. I'm familiar with all of these guys except One For Today, can anyone tell me more about that band? From the collection of Skummy Bob Farrington.

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2005 flier for a show at The Kave with Terror (CA) , Donnybrook (CA) and Outbreak (ME). Super stoked to have just downloaded a pile of Kave fliers from the collection of Jessica Harvey, scanned by Ricky Leighton

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1997 calendar flier from Zootz in Portland, Maine. Lots of good shows on here, with local regulars BMH, Pinkerton Thugs, and Cerberus Shoal. Touring HC acts Sam Black Church, 25 Ta Life and Blood for Blood. Touring metal headliners Eye Hate God and Testament.

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1978 flier for Boston Punk/garage rockers DMZ playing at Portland School of Art (now Maine College of Art & Design). This is one of the oldest fliers from Maine that I have seen, so it makes a lot of sense that it came from the collection of Richard Julio.

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Time for another show at the Bike Barn! June 24th we’ve got Pigeon Pit from WA coming through with local support from Myles Bullen and Milk St. $15 cash NOTAFLOF. Doors at 6pm / Show at 7pm. All ages welcome. It’s probably gonna be pretty packed, so wear a mask.

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2005 flyer for a folk-punk show at a vacant office space on middle st in Portland. I believe Spoonboy was the instigating artist for this one and the other acts were local/regional folks who @samn thought would be a good match. I remember this show well, although I lost the photos I took.

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2 1993 fliers for Tribe 8 playing at Zootz with local support from The Brood and Have Not. I’ve got both the show flier and the ledger size color poster from the this Tribe 8 tour. Tribe 8 was a pretty early queercore band from SF.

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A selection of photos of The Pontiffs from the collection of Gina Brown . The Pontiffs were a punky rock n roll band started by Kip Brown in 1991 that continued until the 2000s. They had a large catalog of original tunes, but never released any recordings that I'm aware of.

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